Jeroen de Kloet is assistant professor Mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam and works on the cultural implications of globalization in China. He co-edited the volume Cosmopatriots - On Distant Belonging and Close Encounters (Rodopi 2007), and published on popular music, cinema and new technologies in China.

His current NWO funded research project is titled Celebrations and Contestations of Chineseness – The Beijing 2008 Olympics and 21st Century Imaginations of Place, Culture and Identity. His monograph titled China with a Cut – Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music is published by Amsterdam UP in 2010.